At 11:59 on March 31 East Africa Time, a brain virus started to spread through the African continent. The media is referring to it as Zombiegeddon or Operation Z. SwiftRiver and Ushahidi have begun tracking reports of incident from around the world.

[Editor’s note: For the Washington DC folks: “The first map to depict the world essentially as we know it today was the Waldseemuller Map, which dates from 1507. Among its many cartographical breakthroughs, it represented the New World—labeled as America—as a separate continent, and suggested the existence of the Pacific Ocean. Lester’s narrative history chronicles how European mapmakers pieced together this new picture of the world from the earlier expeditions of Vespucci, Marco Polo, and the ancients.” Thanks Kate!]